, 1887-08-03
TOW TALK
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.
"Kind sir, your daughter 1 would wed"
GO to, go to- the father said
And twas no sooner said than done.
For they went two and came back one.
Conductor K. R. Hine has sold to G.
D. Kelly lot 3 in block lac for $500.
There is yet no trace of the bold bur-
glar who robbed ]. G.. Pratt's residence
Monday afternoon.
According to the Boomerang Laramie
is overrun with thieves, begGars, thugs,
burglars and footpads.
The highest temperature yesterday was
$50, the lowest $50. The thermometer
indicated go at Omaha.
The members of the Cheyenne Gun
club will participate in a practice shoot at
the fair grounds this afternoon.
The passenger train from the East was
three hours late last evening. A burned
bridge near Egbert was the cause of the
delay.
The Holdredge, Neb., Citizen joins
with Wyoming and Nebraska papers in
asserting that the freman's tournament
at Kearney was little less thar a bunko
game.
Those who delight in floral display will
find great pleasure in viewing the be-
wildering display of beautiful roses now
exhibited at Mrs. V. s.. Glafcke's green
houses.
Union Pacific Brakeman G. S. Guthrie,
of this city, stuck his head out of a ca
boose window in the Laramie yards last
Saturday, and received a severe scalp
wound.
Judge Lee tried and sentenced three
drunks yesterday. The trio were suffer
ing from the general scarcity OF money
and will labor seven days each on the
chain gang.
The Union Pacific continues to intro
duce the dust burning locomotives on the
mountain divisions. They consume less
fuel and can draw heavier loads than the
old ten-wheelers.
Chas. Smith, a Swede arrested by an
officer yesterday, charged with creating a
disturbance, broke and ran while enroute
to the calaboose. He was recaptured in
a Sixteenth street saloon.
The young people of the Presbyterian
church gave a lawn party at the residence
of Mr.. j. w. Collins last evening. The
attendance was large. Delightful weather
gave a superb zest to the entertainment.
In cleaning the cell of Jones, the bur-
glar, yesterday, the officers unearthed
several pieces of iron and two sticks of
hard wood. Jones is a restless spirit, and
will leave no stone unturned in his efforts
to escape.
kilograms for the following named per-
sons may be had at the Western Union
office: N. V. Kohner, John Gricr, II. S.
johnson, R. j.. Franklin, +. L. Lent,
Mrs, NJ. Wilson, Henry Sellick and
Harry Ellis.
John Quinn yesterday plead guilty to
the charge of unlawfully selling gold
rings about the streets. John has tenn
porarily retired from the jewelry business
and can now be found in the county Jail
Mt all hours of the day or night.
The county commissioners held a
lengthy session Yesterday. They declared
the road from Otto station to the western
boundary line Of Laramie county a public
highway; officially accepted the fourth
twenty-five miles of the ECheyeune &
Northern railroad, and paid its repre-
sentative $4,000, and allowed Ia number
OF Other bills
Joe Dapita, the II year.old boy held
In the county Jail as a witness, rooms on
top OF the cage, and is a constant source
OF annoyance to other prisoners. Joe is
no respector of PERSONS, and forms no
friendships He will lay in wait for
hours to pull the hair or deluge with
water the person of a prisoner against
whom he has animosity.
Frank LesLe's Weekly for July 30 con
talns an excellent illustration purported
10 We the last buffalo captured in the
Oau lands OF Western Dakota. 1t is from
a photograph taken by Chas. kirkland of
the buffalo at Warren's ranch. In the
same issue of the paper is a well written
article on the determination of the bison,
contributed by a Che yenne'gentleman.
foods given away free of charge at S.
hSelIner's. Money paid for every twentl